Table I.

Association between serum GASL1 and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with gastric cancer.

		GASL1 expression level
Characteristics	No. of cases	High (n=44)	Low (n=44)	χ2	P-value
Age (years)
>45	48	22	26	0.73	0.39
<45	40	22	18
Gender
Male	52	23	29	1.69	0.19
Female	36	21	15
Drinking
Yes	47	22	25	0.41	0.52
No	41	22	19
Smoking
Yes	42	19	23	0.73	0.39
No	46	25	21
Tumor size (cm)
>5	45	17	28	5.50	0.02
<5	43	27	16
Tumor distant metastasis
Yes	41	18	23	1.14	0.29
No	47	26	21

GASL1, growth arrest associated lncRNA 1.